The first three are of the kitten, who I call Spartacus (we now think he's a boy ...it's so hard to tell!) and then the others are of Beatrix, the Mamma cat. We moved the cats to Janet's balcony in order to keep them safe from Frodo-the-Dumb-Dog. There was an issue of how the cat would get down from the balcony but that was remedied with the introduction of the 'cat-walk.' No, it wasn't my idea. Janet rigged it up and had William hammer on the 'steps' when the board itself proved too slippery for Beatrix to climb on her own. Now she's very adept at climbing up and down...and I hum a little tune to myself when I see her 'strutting' her stuff. The other day she even made it down the catwalk with Spartacus in her mouth. (Ah! That makes me nervous. She didn't know what to do with him when they got to the bottom....so they just trotted back up again. What was the point?)

I want to draw your attention to the first close up 'head shot' of Beatrix, made more classy by the morsel of cat food dangling from her mouth. Someone pass that cat a napkin!